Daphne Koller

Career

Daphne Koller spent 18 years on the computer science faculty at Stanford University, where Koller held the Rajeev Motwani Professorship and remains an adjunct faculty member. Koller co-founded the online learning platform Coursera, serving as co-CEO and president, and later co-founded Engageli, an interactive digital learning platform.¹

Koller was formerly chief computing officer of Calico, an Alphabet company working in health, and founded insitro in 2018. insitro applies machine learning to drug discovery and development, and Koller leads it as CEO and serves on its board.¹⁴

Teaching and writing

Koller's research has appeared in venues ranging from Science, Cell and Nature Genetics to NeurIPS and ICML. Koller is listed as the instructor of the Probabilistic Graphical Models specialization that Stanford Online offers on Coursera, and Stanford recognized Koller's teaching with its Medal for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research and a Bass University Fellowship in Undergraduate Education.¹³

Work and contributions

• Probabilistic Graphical Models specialization Published research

  Listed as the instructor of the Probabilistic Graphical Models specialization, offered by Stanford Online on Coursera.³

Timeline

1. 1996Received a Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship.¹
2. 2001Received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award.¹
3. 2008Received the ACM Prize in Computing.¹
4. 2018Founded insitro, a machine learning-driven drug discovery and development company.⁴¹
5. 2023Was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.¹

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Co-founder, co-CEO and president, Coursera¹
• Chief computing officer, Calico¹

Honors and recognition

• Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship · Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1996¹
• ONR Young Investigator Award · Office of Naval Research, 1998¹
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers · U.S. Government, 1999¹
• IJCAI Computers and Thought Award · International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2001¹
• MacArthur Fellowship · John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2004¹
• AAAI Fellow · Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2004¹
• ACM Prize in Computing · Association for Computing Machinery, 2008¹
• Member, National Academy of Engineering · U.S. National Academy of Engineering, 2011¹
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences · American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014¹
• ISCB Fellow · International Society for Computational Biology, 2017¹
• ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award · Association for Computing Machinery and AAAI, 2019¹
• Member, National Academy of Sciences · U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2023¹

Where they work

• insitro 1 person in the wiki
• Stanford University 40 people in the wiki

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